There is nothing I am not saying, its all on the table now, when losing weight I was only eating 1000 – 1500 calories a day and burning up to 2000, so it just goes to prove that, its not what you eat, its HOW MUCH you eat, thats the isue.

Great to see you so up-beat Gaz!
I think Colin hit it on the head with the “personal fruit taster”🙂
Unfortunately the supermarkets go for uniform shape, size & colour in their fruit buying, but not for best taste… There is nothing that beats a lovely crisp fresh tasty apple or sweet juicy orange/satsuma/clementine, but a mealy apple or dried out and sour orange can seriouslt put you off, if you don’t know just how good they can be.

I was thinking about something that’s similar to crisps in texture/flavour, but would give you some healthy carbohydrates to try … what are your thoughts about crispbread?
There are lots of varieties out there, some very bland, others quite tasty. They also keep well if you wanted to introduce small quantities (if you seal the packet to prevent them softening, just like crisps, really😉
There is a brand called Finncrisp that you might want to check out (I have no connection to them I hasten to add)
Just a thought, it looks like you will find your own way without much help🙂.

As has been said somewhere in recent comments, give your guts some time to learn about the strange new stuff that they don’t recognise … by only replacing small parts of your meals with new stuff.

I hope you can enjoy the new flavours, textures and smells once you get over the novelty value🙂

Thanks for all the suggestions all, keep them coming, I am just reading, thinking and planning my next move right now, will reply to everyone once I have a little more clarity, you guys are REALLY helping me clear a lot up tho, Thanks.

not sure if you have one or not but you should consider looking into getting a juicer, argos do a cookworks juicer which is quite cheap, it is a good kitchen gadget that can produce lovely smoothies and you can chuck anything in there, today i had a spinach, apple, pear and carrot smoothie, strange but did not taste too bad and did give me loads of energy for my bike ride